GrandPrix Race Manager

Description

GrandPrix Race Manager™ is an application that will help you manage your Pinewood Derby®, Awana® Grand Prix, Space Derby®, Raingutter Regatta, and other similar races by Royal Rangers, Royal Ambassadors, Lutheran Pioneers, YMCA Adventure Guides, Christian Service Brigade, CRC Cadets, Master Clubs, and other organizations. GrandPrix Race Manager handles registering racers to determining award winners, making your race more organized, shorter and enjoyable for all. GrandPrix Race Manager is highly customizable and easy to use.

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Not Tied to One Specific Way - The software gives you the flexibility to run a race in many different ways. The software will not dictate how you should run your race.

Customize to Your Organization - You can define your race groups and subgroups to be whatever you want.

Number of Lanes - Supports from 1 to 8 lane tracks.

Large Font Screens - Roster, Racing, On Deck, Standings, and Awards screens have fonts large enough to display to an audience on a large TV or projection system.

Highly Customizable - Many options are provided to allow you to customize the software to better suit your needs.

Lite and Pro Versions - A Lite Version of the software is available for those users that need just the basics. A Pro Version is available for those needing more flexibility and features. Compare Lite and Pro Versions

Racer Registration

Simple Racer Registration - Manually enter racers or import racer information from an existing spreadsheet or database. You can also import racer data from or export data to DerbyDMV.

Vehicle Number Flexibility - Racers can choose their own vehicle numbers or they can be assigned by the race staff or by the software.

Racer Photos (Pro Version) - If you wish, you can add photos of each racer or of their race vehicle. You can even capture the photos directly from a web cam or video camera.** These photos will be displayed on the Racing, Heat Winner, Track Record, and Awards/Standings screens.

Dynamic Scheduling - Built-in Dynamic scheduler maximizes the number of racers to win at least one heat. Competition gets tighter for all racers as the race progresses, since racers are matched up based on performance.

Times Scoring - Score by your choice of Cumulative, Average or Single Fastest elapsed time. You can even ignore each racer's worst time, so one bad run doesn't hurt them!

Points Scoring - Points are awarded based on finish order.

Auto or Manual Entry - Results can be entered automatically, via one of the supported timing systems, or manually.

Running the Race

Race Rounds - Run any number of rounds for each race group. You can also run a Grand Finals round of the top finishers from each race group. See our Suggested Race Format for one possible way to run a race with our software.

Full Featured Racing Screen

Displays current heat's racers and their lane assignments. Also displays results for each racer once heat is completed.

Displays "On Deck" racers.

Displays the list of top times (Pro Version).

Displays the track record time and record holder (Pro Version).

Automatically receive input from a timing system, if one used.

Run head-to-head tiebreaker heats, if needed.

Play sound effects.

Re-run a heat, if necessary.

And more...

Tiebreakers (Pro Version) - If you have a tie in the standings, you can apply a set of tiebreaker rules to break it without any further racing. You can also break the ties in head-to-head fashion.

Supports Power Point Presentation Remotes - Your MC or race director can control the large-font screens using one of these types of remote control.

Supports RaceFX Software (Pro Version) - If you have our RaceFX Version 7.0 or above installed, then GrandPrix Race Manager can automatically control the playing of sound effects during the race.

Supports RaceReplay Software (Pro Version) - If you have our RaceReplay Version 5.0 or above installed, then GrandPrix Race Manager can automatically control the video recording and replay from the racing screen.

Customer Comments

Customer Comments:Check out the testimonials from some of our customers.

See how GrandPrix Race Manager features compare to competing software packages on our Software Comparison page. Decide for yourself which will best suit the needs of your race.

A portion of the profits from this software are donated to our local Awana club. Awana® is an international organization which seeks to teach girls and boys about the Gospel of Christ and to train them to serve Him through bible verse memorization, bible teaching, games, and other activities.

GrandPrix Race Manager is a trademark of Lisano Enterprises Inc.Awana is a registered trademark of Awana Clubs International.Pinewood Derby, Space Derby and Cub Scouts are registered trademarks of the Boy Scouts of America.Windows and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

What's New

Registered users of Versions 13 and above of this software are eligible to purchase the upgrade. Anyone purchasing an earlier version of this software within 90 days of the newest version being released can contact us for a free upgrade.

What's New with Version 18.0:

GrandPrix Race Manager™ was originally written for use in our Awana Grand Prix races at Gateway Church of El Cajon, CA. Then it was offered as shareware for a couple of years before being rewritten as a commercial grade application and launched as Version 2.0. Each year we continue to improve the software and have used it to run our own Awana and Cub Scout races each year. Countless race coordinators have given their feedback and suggestions over the years, which has helped make GrandPrix Race Manager into a quality race management software package and an outstanding value for the price.

Version 18.0 is part of the fourth generation of this software (V1 Shareware, V2-6, V7-15, V16-?). This generation is a major overhaul of the software to accomplish two main goals. The first is to make the software as user friendly and intuitive as possible. The second is to make the software compatible with both Windows and macOS. This was a major undertaking, as the software had to be written in a different programming language, but we are proud of the results and believe that you will find the software even more useful and easier to use.

New or Improved Features for All Users

MacOS Support

Added support for Perfect-N Type scheduling. Windows and macOS versions of GrandPrix Race Manager now support the same scheduling options.

Added application and main menus to the macOS menu bar.

Data File Support

You can now directly use your DerbyDMV Version 9.0 or above data file with GrandPrix Race Manager or vice versa. No need to export your data from one app and then import into the other. Both apps can share the same data file.

Software Settings

Increased to 100 the maximum number of places to not allow ties in when using tiebreaker rules.

Competition Groups

Manually adding groups and subgroups is now faster. When you add one, the software will ask you if you want to add another. If so, form is cleared for the next entry to be made.

Registration

Manually adding racers is now faster. When you add a racer, the software will ask you if you want to add another. If so, form is cleared for the next entry to be made.

Made using number series for each race group easier. When entering a new racer, the software will find the next number in that group’s series to use.

Improved import process to make it easier to use an export from some other software. Any extra columns in that export, not needed by GrandPrix Race Manager, will be ignored.

Added search feature to quickly find a particular racer. Enter a First Name, Last Name, Vehicle#, or Custom Field to search for.

Improved sorting of records when selecting column title to sort by. Records will be listed more intelligently.

Schedules

Perfect-N scheduling will now support more runs per lane for some combinations of number of track lanes and number of racers.

Added a nag message to view the schedule matrix report once a schedule is created.

Improved master scheduling to rotate through the groups a bit better.

Added search feature to the Schedules tab to quickly find a particular heat.

Added search feature to the Manual Scheduler screen’s list of available racers. Enter a First Name, Last Name or Vehicle# to search for.

Racing

Added search feature to the Racing tab to quickly find a particular heat.

When closing out of the Racing screen, the last used group’s results will be displayed on the Racing tab.

Changed end of round and start new round messages to nags so you have the option of not getting those messages again.

Added a nag message about pressing the Escape key to get out of the timing mode.

Standings

Changed the way standings are generated so there will not be any delay between heats, as long as standings are not being published to DerbyWeb.

Added search feature to the Standings tab to find a particular racer. Enter a First Name, Last Name, Vehicle#, or Custom Field to search for.

Added a count of racers and those excluded to the right side of the Standings tab.

When viewing round standings on the audience display screen, each racer’s group will be displayed.

Awards

Manually adding awards is now faster. When you add an award, the software will ask you if you want to add another. If so, form is cleared for the next entry to be made.

The next highest priority will be used when manually adding a new award.

Added search feature to the Awards tab to quickly find a particular award.

Improved sorting of records when selecting column title to sort by. Records will be listed more intelligently.

When editing awards, Next and Back buttons are now available on the edit screen to edit multiple records quickly.

Report Settings

Added option to display the PDF viewer’s Print screen once a report is viewed. Some PDF viewers hide their print feature, so this makes it easier to print a report. Pro users can turn this option off. It is always on for Lite users. Note, does not work with some PDF viewers.

Added support for more fonts when generating reports.

Reports

Added the data filename to the default reports filename.

Fixed the issue with racers that have not passed inspection being displayed on vehicle stats reports.

General

Provides better support when using more than 2 monitors.

Improved the visibility of column titles on audience display screens.

Several other less notable improvements and fixes were implemented.

New or Improved Features for Pro Users

DerbyWeb

When creating a new data file, the software will default to creating it in the DerbyWeb's data folder.

Top Times

Manually adding top times is now faster. When you add a top time, the software will ask you if you want to add another. If so, form is cleared for the next entry to be made.

Track Records

Manually adding track records is now faster. When you add a track record, the software will ask you if you want to add another. If so, form is cleared for the next entry to be made.

When editing a track record, the group name is now editable.

Standings

Moved the turtle option to finish all heats to the Software Settings screen. A more logical place for that setting.

Data File Merging

Added notice if any racer’s vehicle number had to be changed when merging data files.

Report Settings

Added option to display the PDF viewer’s Print screen once a report is viewed. Some PDF viewers hide their print feature, so this makes it easier to print a report. Pro users can turn this option off. It is always on for Lite users. Note, does not work with some PDF viewers.

General

Added ability to set the minimum and maximum font sizes for audience display screens. Can help in situations where automatic fonts end up being too small or too big.

Reports - How to generate and export reports.Partial Heat Rerun - How to rerun a heat without rerunning all of the racers in that heat.Timer Malfunction - How to deal with a timer communications failure during your race.Add a Late Racer - How to add a racer to your schedule after racing has already begun.Exclude Racers - How to allow a racer to run but not show up in the standings.Exclude Grand Finals Winners - How to keep the Grand Finals winners from showing up in the standings for their original race groups.